Tara Brabazon podcast

How do we explain the rise of the celebrity chef and the slow food movement? More potently, how is the relationship between food and popular culture transforming?

Why do newspapers 'encourage' comments from their readers? What is the point? In this podcast, Tara talks with John Gill about his dissertation on online comment cultures.

What happens to the analogue in a digital world? Faracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon, in this sixth session exploring Faracy's dissertation topic, asks why she is crafting analogue sonic objects. And what is happening with the old piano in the corner of Tara's office without any black and white keys?

In this fourth podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the structure and arguments to be expressed in his dissertation. We explore how and why sound creates social change.

Faracy Grouse, in this her fifth dissertation session with Tara Brabazon, states why she remains facinated by the analogue and what it can offer to humanities education.

A PhD oral examination is one of the most stressful events in academic life. But oral examinations have a shape. In this podcast, Tara presents the ten questions that often start or conclude a PhD exam.

Faracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon explore the function of disconnection from digital environments.

Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon explore Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge's Social Semiotics. They ponder the nature of resistance and social change. Most importantly, they explore the function of sound and sonic social semiotics.

Tara talks with John Gill about his dissertation on the comment culture in online fora. Theories of community and otherness are discussed, along with the consequences of anonymity.

Tara talks with Steve Redhead about his new book, We have never been postmodern. They discuss the nature of politics and theory in the contemporary social sciences and the humanities and the currency of post/modernity in higher education.